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Authors bring race, oil and combat into focus at New Orleans events in October

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Author Michelle Alexander addresses a Dillard University audience in November 2012, urging a radical civil rights movement to up-end mass incarceration that disproportionately affects black men. She will speak at Tulane University on October 2, 2013.
(Kim Walker LaGrue, for Dillard University)

Three notable nonfiction writers will make New Orleans appearances in early October. These free events are a chance to learn more about World War I history, society’s appetite for fossil fuels, and the ideas of a legal scholar who upended the national debate about drug laws and incarceration.

"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness"

By Michelle Alexander

New Press, $19.95

In this national bestseller, a legal scholar examines how racial profiling, drug laws, and various changes in government policy have had a devastating effect on African-American communities. Alexander will speak at Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, Wednesday (Oct. 2), 6 p.m.

“Verdun”

By John Mosier

NAL Hardcover, $25.95

A Loyola University scholar draws on new documents and freshly translated accounts for this revisionist history of one of the bloodiest battles of World War I. He will speak at Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., Tuesday (Oct. 1), 6 p.m.

“The Oil Road: Journeys From the Caspian Sea to the City of London”

By James Marriott, Mika Minio-Paluello

Verso, $19.95

This politically charged travelogue won wide praise in Britain for its deft weaving of history, anecdote and polemic about society’s hunger for oil. The authors will speak at Maple Street Bookstore, 7523 Maple St., Thursday (Oct. 3), 6 p.m.